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Old 10-11-2010, 01:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Germany used coal gas generators in their Kubel-wagens at the end of the war. When my father finished his 30 missions on 6-6-44, he ferried planes to Paris at Le Bourget. There were acres of parked Kubel-wagens sitting near the airport. All of them had coal gas generators, but they were also all booby trapped.

The problem that I read about is the tar residue from generating gas from coal, and probably even more so from wood.

Maybe a separator and a pressurized tank of fuel would be the solution, just a guess.
I know you can smell the turpentine from a rotten trunk of a dead tree. It is much more flammable than the wood itself.

As far as working with your existing FI system, the easiest way would be to have a pressurized tank of your alternate fuel and feed it into the intake manifold. The system should reduce the amount of your original fuel that is delivered to the engine.

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